The Achilles Trap
Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Each week, The New Yorker's editors and critics recommend the most captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking, and talked-about books. Now, as 2024 comes to an end, they’ve chosen a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry.
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Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
a Novel
a Novel
a History
a True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
a Health Resort Horror Story
the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Poems
the Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
a Breakdown
a Novel
a Novel
Meditations After An Attempted Murder
a Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Fiction
His Life and Legend
a Memoir
Poems
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